what is your favourite children/childhood story and why?
I would say mine are all of Beatrice Potter's series. I can still visualise the drawings from when one I was little
your most favourite children's story
what is your favourite children/childhood story and why?
I would say mine are all of Beatrice Potter's series. I can still visualise the drawings from when one I was little
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
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it fly
Treasure Island
The best boys' book ever written. Action, adventure, pirates, betrayal, courage and the most heroic boy in literature.
I still love it!
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
Anon
The Moomins!
The Moomins of course
The Hobbit. I read it a dozen times.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
I`ve read it as a teenager for the first time.Originally Posted by kev67
Around the world in eighty days - Jules Verne.
The Children of the New Forest - Captain Marryat
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
Le Petit Prince. One can read it and experience new meanings throughout a lifetime.
"J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage."
- Rimbaud
"Il est l'heure de s'enivrer!
Pour n'être pas les esclaves martyrisés du Temps,
enivrez-vous;
enivrez-vous sans cesse!
De vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise."
- Baudelaire
1.Emil and the Detectives
2.Treasure Island
3.Little Women
4Jane Eyre
Much too old for The Moomins and I hated The Hobbit when I read it at 20
Why did you hate "The Hobbit"?
I remember reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and A Wrinkle in Time over and over.
Going back even further, the Sesame Street book The Monster at the End of This Book, in which Grover desperately tries and fails to stop the reader from advancing toward the end, was a huge favorite, and is still good for laughs as an adult.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Three Fat Men by Yury Olesha.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
My father's childhood book, "I Don't Want to go go Bed" by Ruth Kauffman (Altemus "Wee Books for Wee Folks")...it's close to an antique now and has sentimental value.
Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink the wild air ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too old for the Moomins! :O
I read them now and still love them!
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